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    [SOLVED] Re: Mounting WD My Book World drive

    Bucky, I got fed up late last night and just tried to format it... Wouldn't format via drive utility (input/output error) nor could I delete anything using any dos based hard drive zero-er. To me...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Mounting WD My Book World drive

    Everything I found for fixing sector read errors were things that I already did with the exception of the dos program HDAT2. Unfortunately I ran that and it gives me an error:
    "ERROR reading of the...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Mounting WD My Book World drive

    Tried using Photorec, both for ext2/ext3 file systems and for "other" file systems. For both the bottom line always reads "Error reading sector (sector number)" and says 0 files found.

    My...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Mounting WD My Book World drive

    Following the suggestion of another website, I tried the command dmesg | grep "[sh]da"

    a ton of similar results popped up. A typical one looked like:
    [ 940.967521] sd 2:0:0:0 [sda] CDB:...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Mounting WD My Book World drive

    Used Disk Utility. Partition types are all listed as unknown. Partitioning is "Unknown Scheme"

    Tried the dumpe2fs from the link you provided. Response was "Couldn't find valid filesystem...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Mounting WD My Book World drive

    I will check on that tomorrow. Some people said it was ext3, some said it was a raid stup, bt trying to mount as an ext3 (or 2) gave the error that the FS was wrong. I also tried to follow directions...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Mounting WD My Book World drive

    Sorry, I've been driving myself crazy with this that I missed some important info!

    I am using a ubuntu live cd (created a couple of months ago) for doing all of this.

    The hard drive is a WD...
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    [SOLVED] Mounting WD My Book World drive

    Hello,

    My WD My Book World drive has crapped out on me. I took the hard drive out of the case and put it into my desktop. I am now trying to access the drive with the only purpose of recovering...
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